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Cleanroom Equipment Move

Key Considerations for Moving and Installing Cleanroom Equipment

Moving and installing high-technology equipment is always a challenging task, but when you add a cleanroom environment to the mix, things get even more complex. Cleanrooms are designed to maintain exceptionally controlled environments to protect...

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Pharmaceutical equipment moves

The 4 Essential “P”s of Moving Pharmaceutical Equipment

The pharmaceutical sector is continuously evolving. And as facilities scale up production, reconfigure cleanrooms, or introduce new technologies, the...

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UKCA Marking

Your UKCA Marking FAQs, Answered

Before you can sell or supply certain products in Great Britain, you must certify that they comply with UKCA marking regulations.

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Maximising Semiconductor Equipment Uptime: 5 Key Maintenance Tips

In semiconductor manufacturing, even brief equipment downtime can have serious consequences, from missed production deadlines to increased...

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Apprentice at Work

From the classroom to the cleanroom: Harri's career-shaping apprenticeship journey

Apprenticeships have traditionally been seen as an alternative to university. But, in reality, they offer so much more.

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Benefits of a Field Service Engineer

9 Benefits of Working with a Field Service Engineer (FSE)

When you’re working in a fast-paced, high-technology environment, having easy access to highly skilled, on-demand experts isn’t just a bonus. It’s a...

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Ion Implanter Decontamination

Best Practices for Decontaminating an Ion Implanter for Removal

If you’re moving or relocating an ion implanter - particularly one that’s been in use for an extended period - it’s absolutely critical that you...

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Medical Equipment Moves

Why Are RAMS So Essential for Lab Equipment Movers?

Whether you’re moving sensitive instruments like electron microscopes and spectrometers or high-powered lasers and centrifuges, relocating lab...

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PUWER Inspection

7 Key Considerations for PUWER Compliance in Manufacturing

As a manufacturer, if you own, operate or control any kind of mechanised work equipment (including appliances, apparatus or installations for use at...

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Lorry at Customs Clearance

Importing High-Technology Capital Equipment: What Documentation Do You Need?

Looking to import high-technology capital equipment into the UK from a country outside of the UK for use in your factory?

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High Technology Equipment in a Wooden Crate

How To Design a Wooden Crate for Capital Equipment

When transporting delicate, high-technology and high-value capital equipment, the right wooden crate can make the difference between carrying out a...

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Production Line in Operation

UKCA Marking Production Lines: What Should Your Technical File Contain?

Planning to combine a series of complete or partly completed machines to create a single production line?

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Commissioning High Technology Equipment

Commissioning High-Technology Capital Equipment: An Expert’s Guide

You’ve spent the past few weeks relocating, installing and setting up a piece of high-technology capital equipment.

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Airport

Making Impossible Possible: Life of a Travelling Installation Engineer

Installation engineers, like me, experience life in a very unique way.

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Medical Scanner

7 Considerations When Moving Complex Pharma Equipment into Your Lab

Moving complex pharma equipment and systems into your lab is not your everyday project.

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UKCA and CE Marking Logos

UKCA Vs CE Marking: What’s the Difference?

Product marking is crucial for retaining market access, adhering to local legal requirements and offering safety and quality assurances to customers.

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Structural Machine Base

How To Design and Install a Structural Machine Base

Using a well-made structural machine base versus a substandard base can be a matter of life or death for precision tools like lithography, metrology...

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Importing Capital Equipment

Importing Capital Equipment: Complying with UKCA Marking

Many manufacturers require the importation of mechanical, electrical, and electronic manufacturing equipment into the UK.

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Equipment Move Partner

What To Ask Your Capital Equipment Relocation Partner Before Starting a Project

Planning a complex capital equipment relocation and looking for the right partner to support the project?

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SEMI Packing Standard

What are the SEMI Packing Standards?

How a semiconductor tool is packed directly influences its long-term performance, longevity and reliability.

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Export Packing Semiconductor Equipment

4 Expert Tips for Export Packing Semiconductor Equipment

We’ve worked with complex, business-critical semiconductor equipment since 1991. And in that time, we’ve worked with some of the world’s most...

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How to achieve UKCA compliance

How to Achieve UKCA Compliance in 5 Steps

Are you a manufacturer looking to supply a product, equipment or piece of machinery to markets in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland)?

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Air Skates: Supporting Precision Movement

How Air Skates Are Supporting the Way We Handle Precision Movement

Whether you’re transporting high-value equipment within a cleanroom environment, positioning delicate scientific instruments, or aligning heavy...

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What is ISPM 15? And Who Does it Apply To?

What is ISPM 15? And Who Does it Apply To?

The International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures Publication No. 15 are commonly known as ISPM 15. They provide criteria for the regulation of...

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How IES FSEs Support Fabs to Keep Tools Running

How IES FSEs Support Fabs to Keep Tools Running

Semiconductor fabs thrive on optimisation. From minimising downtime to increasing the lifespan of tools and upping output levels – chipmakers have a...

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6 Things to Consider When Planning an Equipment Relocation Project

6 Things to Consider When Planning an Equipment Relocation Project

It doesn’t matter whether you’re only moving a single piece of equipment to a different area of your site or if you’re relocating an entire factory...

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high-tech machine move

High-Technology Equipment Decommissioning: How to Get it Right

Before you can move or pack high-technology equipment for relocation, you first need to decommission it.

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Freight forwarding

How to Handle Freight Forwarding During a Supply Chain Crisis

We are currently experiencing a global supply chain crisis. Delays and shortages are causing a ripple effect across the world, and this can be...

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6 Things to Consider When Planning an Equipment Relocation Project

Machinery movement insurance: Getting the right cover

Are you planning to move a piece of hi-tech equipment, a complete production line, or an entire factory? There is plenty of planning required for...

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IES apprenticeship scheme

IES Furthers Apprenticeship Scheme Commitment

We have decided to roll out the IES apprenticeship scheme, recruiting for two new roles that offer an experienced-based route into engineering. The...

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Do's and Don’ts of ISPM 15 - Export Packing - Crate Making

Do's and Don’ts of ISPM 15

ISPM 15 are the standards which provide criteria for regulating wood as a packaging material.

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How to Rig Machinery

How to Rig Machinery

Rigging is an integral part of equipment moves – in fact, without rigging there would be no movement.

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ISPM15

ISPM15 and Heat Treated Export Packing Solutions - A Guide

ISPM15 standards provide the criteria for wood used as packaging material. They are intended to prevent the spread of pests and diseases and concern...

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Unique Requirements for Military Packaging

How to Meet the Unique Requirements for Military Packaging

IES is one of the only export packing providers in the UK to be a Military Packager Accreditation Scheme (MPAS) certified contractor.

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Custom Made Crates

A Guide to Our Custom-Made Wooden Crates

When you’re shipping sensitive, high-value, business-critical equipment, you need total peace of mind that it’s not going to be damaged during...

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Why to Use an End-to-End Provider for Machine Relocation

An ‘end-to-end’ provider means the supplier of a solution which encompasses an operation from start to finish.

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Harri Green Engineering Apprentice

Harri is Learning More as an Engineering Apprentice

After leaving school, Harri Green started a full-time college course. But a few months later he changed to a Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship at...

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Cross-Training and Beyond – Building Employee Experience

When you consider the wide range of services that IES offers its clients, you may think we have hundreds of employees, or that we use...

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Wooden Crates

Why Quality Export Packing is Vital For International Trading

Global trade is the lifeblood of a growing number of companies. According to a 2023 report from the Office of National Statistics, in 2022 alone, UK...

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The Power of Apprenticeships

The Power of Apprenticeships

School leavers are often inundated with options for their future. Should they choose higher education or employment? But there’s a middle ground –...

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Export Packing

Bespoke Packaging for Large Machinery: Breaking Down the Build

IES has almost three decades’ worth of experience in packing and shipping machinery, ranging from entire factory movement right down to single item...

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Semiconductor Cleanroom Fab

Who’s Who in Your Factory Relocation Project?

Relocating a factory is a bit like building a machine; all the cogs need to fit and work together. If one part stops working, the whole thing comes...

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Equipment Transport

Our 6-Step Process for Equipment Transport

Transporting complex, high-technology equipment is no easy feat—regardless of whether you’re an OEM or an end user.

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Equipment Deinstallation

Specialist Engineer Brian Fletcher’s 5 Expert Tips for Factory De-installations

Factory de-installations are never simple. But they’re a lot easier when you do them right.

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Export Packing Service by IES

Packing High-Technology Equipment: An Expert’s Guide

It doesn’t matter if you’re moving a piece of high-technology equipment 20 miles across towns or 2,000 miles across continents, you want peace of...

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Factory Relocation: Method Statements and Risk Assessments

Factory Relocation: Method Statements and Risk Assessments

Relocating an entire factory is no small feat. Much like the workings of the factory itself, it involves a huge number of individual processes that...

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Customs and International Transfer for Factory Relocations

Customs and Shipping for Global Factory Relocations: What You Need to Know

Relocating a factory is no easy feat.

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How to Carry Out a Site Survey for Your Manufacturing Facility Relocation

You might’ve heard the phrase: If you have six hours to chop a tree, you should spend the first five sharpening the axe.

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Semiconductor Process Training

Semiconductor Equipment and Process Training from IES

IES offers a variety of courses that cover a wide range of topics central to the semiconductor industry.

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EMF Testing

EMF Exposure in Manufacturing: What UK Employers Need to Know

If you operate a manufacturing site that uses high current or high voltage applications, you must take electromagnetic fields (EMFs) seriously.

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PUWER Assessments

When Do I Need PUWER?

Health and safety is awash with acronyms; so much so that it can be easy to get confused sometimes. But for organisations that operate any kind of...

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Export Packing Essentials: Key Considerations

With over 30 years of experience in projects of all shapes and sizes, for clients representing industries from aerospace to science, we like to think...

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Equipment Move

8 Tips to Relocate High-Value Equipment Like an Expert

Factory relocations are high-stakes projects.

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5 Key Areas for Smooth Packing Process

5 Key Areas for Smooth Packing Process

At IES we have been involved with equipment and machinery packing in many industries for over 20 years, so we have a wealth of expertise and...

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How to Build a Wooden Crate

How to Build a Wooden Crate

We’re often asked how we go about putting a bespoke packing case together and how long it takes. On this occasion it’s just 39 seconds, and here’s...

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CE Mark

How to Achieve CE Compliance in 5 Steps

Conformité Européenne (CE) marking is the European Union’s required certification for products, equipment and machinery supplied to European Economic...

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CE Marking

Which Products, Equipment and Machinery Need CE Marking?

Before you can sell or supply certain products, equipment and machinery in the European Economic Area, you must certify that they comply with CE...

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